Rubus hupehensis
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Rubus hupehensis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Synonyms
- R. swinhoei of early editions, not Hance
Other taxa in genus
- Rubus adenophorus
- Rubus amabilis
- Rubus biflorus
- Rubus caesius
- Rubus calycinoides
- Rubus chroosepalus
- Rubus cissoides
- Rubus cockburnianus
- Rubus corchorifolius
- Rubus coreanus
- Rubus crataegifolius
- Rubus deliciosus
- Rubus flagelliflorus
- Rubus flosculosus
- Rubus henryi
- Rubus hispidus
- Rubus ichangensis
- Rubus idaeus
- Rubus illecebrosus
- Rubus irenaeus
- Rubus koehneanus
- Rubus kuntzeanus
- Rubus laciniatus
- Rubus lambertianus
- Rubus lasiostylus
- Rubus lineatus
- Rubus malifolius
- Rubus mesogaeus
- Rubus nepalensis
- Rubus × nobilis
- Rubus occidentalis
- Rubus odoratus
- Rubus palmatus
- Rubus parkeri
- Rubus parviflorus
- Rubus parvifolius
- Rubus parvus
- Rubus pedunculosus
- Rubus phoenicolasius
- Rubus playfairianus
- Rubus setchuenensis
- Rubus spectabilis
- Rubus subornatus
- Rubus thibetanus
- Rubus trianthus
- Rubus tricolor
- Rubus trifidus
- Rubus ulmifolius
A prostrate or climbing evergreen shrub, with round, slender, dark-coloured stems, thinly furnished with a cobweb-like down when young, and armed with a few small decurved spines. Leaves simple, oblong-lanceolate; 3 to 41⁄2 in. long, by about 11⁄2 in. wide; the base rounded, the apex long-pointed, margins finely toothed; veins in nine to twelve pairs; upper surface smooth except for tiny bristles along the veins, lower one covered with a close grey felt; leaf-stalk 1⁄4 to 1⁄2 in. long. Flowers usually three to seven in short, terminal, very glandular racemes, of little or no beauty; calyx covered with grey felt like the leaves; petals soon falling. Fruits described as at first red, then black-purple, austere.
Native of Central China; originally described in 1899, but introduced to gardens by Wilson from Hupeh in 1907. The foliage is handsome, and distinct from that of any other cultivated species except R. malifolius; the inflorescence also is conspicuous in its glandular hairiness.